Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 596 622
Rank change year-on-year -126 +26 -31
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 63 96 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.13% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 46 41 134
10th Percentile £70,000 £25,313 £56,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,577 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% +4.47% +5.89%
75th Percentile £106,563 £91,934 £115,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £97,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £83,577 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.70% +15.28% -3.33%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 49,740 34,356 47,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.67% 68.89% 57.23%
Number of salaries quoted 30,432 17,987 28,152
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,040 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,969 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,437 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -107 63 £85,000 +1.70% 40
London -76 48 £85,000 +2.10% 35
UK excluding London -97 13 £85,000 +1.70% 7
North West +4 12 £85,000 +30.77%
North of England -38 12 £85,000 +231.71% 2
Work from Home -39 9 £107,500 +43.33% 15
West Midlands -28 1 £102,500 +7.89%
Midlands -33 1 £102,500 +7.89% 1

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (3.17%) Misys Opics
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) AWS
2 20 (31.75%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
4 8 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (9.52%) GCP
6 4 (6.35%) GitHub
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (3.17%) Datadog
8 2 (3.17%) Figma
8 2 (3.17%) Google Analytics
8 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.17%) Vertex AI
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.59%) Dagster
9 1 (1.59%) Google Gemini
9 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (7.94%) Firewall
1 5 (7.94%) LAN
1 5 (7.94%) VPN
1 5 (7.94%) WAN
2 3 (4.76%) BGP
2 3 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (4.76%) OSPF
2 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.17%) Data Mart
2 2 (3.17%) Mixpanel
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.17%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 53 (84.13%) Banking
2 32 (50.79%) Finance
3 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Retail
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.35%) Law
7 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.76%) Marketing
8 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) Advertising
9 1 (1.59%) Electronics
9 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Senior
2 15 (23.81%) Developer
3 14 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (19.05%) AWS Developer
4 12 (19.05%) Azure Developer
4 12 (19.05%) Cloud Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Python Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Auditor
7 6 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) IT Auditor
7 6 (9.52%) Lead
7 6 (9.52%) Platform Manager
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Auditor
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Senior IT Auditor
8 5 (7.94%) Data Scientist
8 5 (7.94%) Network Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) NumPy
1 6 (9.52%) Pandas
2 5 (7.94%) scikit-learn
2 5 (7.94%) XGBoost
3 3 (4.76%) 802.1X
3 3 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (3.17%) CrewAI
4 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.17%) LangChain
4 2 (3.17%) LangGraph
4 2 (3.17%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (3.17%) RESTful
4 2 (3.17%) Spring
4 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.59%) jQuery
5 1 (1.59%) OAuth
5 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.59%) PySpark
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Credit Risk
2 5 (7.94%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Mobile Wallet
5 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) DevOps
2 18 (28.57%) Analytics
3 17 (26.98%) Digital Banking
4 16 (25.40%) Agile
5 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 14 (22.22%) Product Management
6 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (19.05%) AI
7 12 (19.05%) Microservices
8 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.70%) Fraud Detection
9 8 (12.70%) TDD
9 8 (12.70%) Wealth Management
10 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (11.11%) Scrum
10 7 (11.11%) Validation
11 6 (9.52%) Product Strategy
11 6 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 8 (12.70%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) CCNP
1 3 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.59%) APMG
3 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 7 (11.11%) GDPR
2 5 (7.94%) EU AI Act
3 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.17%) PMO
3 2 (3.17%) PSD2
3 2 (3.17%) QA
4 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Terraform
2 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.76%) Check_MK
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Cisco
1 5 (7.94%) Palo Alto
2 4 (6.35%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.17%) Amplitude
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) EMC
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.59%) Revolut
5 1 (1.59%) Workday